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As I did with Compressors, I’m doing with Expanders. Again, I’m not the one to teach about it, but I want to study myself and have to fulfil the duty of getting it started, as today is Monday!

Please, if there were people with enough knowledge to teach us about Expenders, it would be great.

I would like to be answered the following questions for a start:

· What is it an Expander?
· What is does to the sound?
· What do we use it for?
· Which recommendations do you have about Expenders?
· Which instruments are best Expanded and why?
· Which are the risks of Expansion when what you want is a natural sound?
· What kind of experiment can we do to actually and objectively learn to use the different Pulsar Expanders?

Thanks for you help and contribution

the expander is the contrary of a compressor : instead of lowering dynamics at a certain treshold, it raise dynamics. My typical use is synth percussions, or if i want more dynamics. You would also add a compressor after an expander to avoid overload or to limit/compress.

to be more accurate , compresser reduce the level "over" the treshold and the expander reduce the level "under" the treshold .
it's usefull to reduce noise background and then raise dynamic . the pulsar expander do very well its job ...

That's a very simple clear explanation, cheers